Story for a Black Night
by Clayton Bess
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An African father tells his son about the disaster that followed the night a baby with smallpox was abandoned in his family's house.Tags
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Interesting book written by the author, Clayton Bess, while he was a PeaceCorp volunteer in Liberia. Story for a Black Night is about the moral choices women make in the midst of crisis, in this instance during a bout with smallpox. The most charming aspect of the book is its sing-song anti-grammar phrasing, such as “That is why that evening as I listened to silence in the bush, I was scary. Night was coming to be dark now.”
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- Original publication date
- 1982
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 800 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric
- LCC
- PZ7 .B4654 .S — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 32
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- (3.20)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- UPCs
- 1
